A post about my recovery garden and how it is like Persephone, the goddess of spring and wife of Death, inspired by the Page of Pentacles. Also, some haunted moss and a good look into my frog’s golden eyes.
https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/09/23/my-recovery-garden-is-persephones-garden/
@fernfren (more frog pics on the blog, not sure if you've seen them all)
#haunted #nature #tarot #haunted #spooky #gardening #frog #terrarium #herp
i love how you've got the whole circle of life going there
trying to figure out how i can fit another hobby into my lifestyle so i too can have a frog-based ecosytem
@fernfren Start with the bugs, you want a strong colony before you get your apex predator. I had a really nice terrarium with just the pillbugs (oh, pardon, rolly pollies) before I got Morty. I moved the colony to a 1 gallon tank. Hoping that soon I can get more bug tanks, maybe even the ridiculously expensive but adorable blonde rubber ducky isopods, or emerald roaches. Might also get a lizard that likes to be handled so my kid can hold it.
oohhhh this is like the time i obsessed abt getting a tortoise but then i realized that it would outlive me & i would need to make arrangements for its care & that sounds like paperwork
idk. keeping bugs in the house just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen for me... but i love the idea of having little composters as pets. i don't think i could do worms, worms have always given me the heebie-jeebies. i've gotten better tho, gardening tends to desensitize one to h-jeebies
@fernfren Well, I tried to encourage your collection of new and interesting hobbies, but if you're going to balk, I just can't help you.
(I might be in a really good mood.)
you did your best (worst)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lol gimme a minute i just need to overthink it for a week
just FYI, i did google isopods for sale and i learnt that the spiky ones from thailand are SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS
i like the zebras and the clowns tho... but i'm gonna let that simmer for a bit, i'm in the middle of swapping all my furniture around/installing shelves, etc, last thing i need is to throw some live bugs in the mix... but if i can work out where to put a habitat...
@fernfren i have free garden isopods. i've had them for years (they can live 5 + years in captivity). they love carrots & cucumber & dead leaves. nice, quiet, undemanding & fascinating pets
@redenigma @fernfren We've kept those too, the ones in my garden have a nice range of colors and patterns :)
@tippitiwichet @fernfren i'm looking for the ones with yellow markings. we had a lot of those in NY when i was a child, but i don't ever see them in NH
@redenigma @fernfren The ones that look like hotrod fire? Yeah, I've got those in the garden, and some peach colored ones, that look a little like tortishell.